The document summarizes a 90-minute workshop for the e-Learners Team at Putauaki Primary School. The workshop will include: 1) A discussion about what a 2-day digital classroom would look like, sound like, and feel like. 2) A session on improving student outcomes from an e-Learners perspective focusing on learning what matters most and key success indicators. 3) Incorporating thinking tools and strategies into the classroom program including student involvement, variety, choice, responsibility, voice and ownership.

1. e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010

2. e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010

3. Nau Mai, Haere Mai…
ki te whare wananga o nga tauira
o nga mahi rorohiko
e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010

4. Everyone arrives
Everyone needs discussion
Everyone needs to stretch
Everyone needs activity
Everyone needs celebration
Everyone needs to leave
There are no unmotivated learners – only unmotivated states
Source: Mike Scaddan
e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010

5. 90-Minute Workshop Overview
Welcome and Brief Introductions
1. What might a 2 day digital classroom look like, sound like
and feel like?
¤ Creating an effective classroom environment AND
¤ Our 2 day digital classroom
2. Improving student outcomes from an e-Learners perspective
¤ Learning to do what matters most
¤ Key Success Indicators
3. Incorporating a few thinking tools and strategies into the
classroom programme
¤ Including students, variety and choice
¤ Student responsibility, voice and ownership
¤ WWW: I wonder about… I wriggle out of… I want to try…
e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010

6. Wonderings Wall
Who? Why? Which?
What?
How?
When? Where?
…for ‘stickee note’ questions about
e-Learners
e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010

7. 1. What Might a 2 Day Digital Classroom
Look like, Sound like and Feel like?
video
¤ Creating an effective classroom climate –
(match-ups 1, 2, 3) – Taylor AND
¤ Our 2 day digital classroom – (look, sound, feel
cards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) - Shawn
e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010

8. 2. Improving Student Outcomes from an
e-Learners Perspective
video
¤ Learning to do what matters most:(I-ffirmations
1, 2, 3, 4) - Mollie-Rose, Shawn
¤ Key Success Indicators - Whaea J
One hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drive, what
kind of house I lived in, how much money I had nor what my clothes looked like.
But the world may be a little better because I was important in the life of a child
- Anonymous
e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010

9. Web2 Tools Self-Assessment
Learning Reviews Student Voice Learning Conversations
State Changes Morning Reflection Visual Learners
Brain Food
Auditory Learners
Personal Choice
Brain Gym
Daily Timetable
Self Assessment
SMART Goals
Calm Music
I.C.T
Kinesthetic Learners e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010
Positive Language

10. 3. Incorporating a few thinking tools
and strategies into the classroom
programme video
¤ Including students, variety and choice – sandpit
time (e-Learners Team at Putauaki) – Shawn,
Mollie-Rose, Zac, Taylor, Whaea J
¤ Student responsibility, voice and ownership -
Where to from here? T1, T2, T3-T4… – Whaea J and Mr
More
¤ WWW: I wonder about… I wriggle out of…
I want to try
e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010

11. ‘Sandpit’ Time
•Thinking Tools and Strategies: I’d like to include a few of
these in my planning. Where can I go for templates and help?
•Weebly: What is a weebly website and how might I set one up
for myself and also my students? example
•Wordle: I’m keen to create a wordle. How do I start and what
are some ways I can use this in my classroom? example
•Picturetrail: What can I do to add ‘bling’ to my photos
using picturetrail and be able to view them instantly? example
• Sketchfu: I’m looking for a web2 drawing tool that I can use
and replay to students. What can I do with sketchfu?
example
e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010

12. 3. Incorporating a few thinking tools
and strategies into the classroom
programme video
 Including students, variety and choice – sandpit
time (e-Learners Team at Putauaki) – Shawn,
Mollie-Rose, Zac, Taylor, Whaea J
¤ ***Student responsibility, voice and ownership -
Where to from here? T1, T2, T3-T4… – Whaea J and Mr
More
¤ ***WWW: I wonder about… I wriggle out of…
I want to try
e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010

13. Acknowledgements…
video
• Questions and Answers
• Thanks to our Principal and ‘home’ Teachers at Putauaki Primary
Links
e-Learners Team at Putauaki
PeaK-ICT Cluster wiki
Planning for Me and My Environment
Planning for Me and My Brain
Whaea J’s Weebly
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important
to us and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day
and do what really matters most
-Stephen Covey
e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010

14. Mollie – Rose, Shawn, Zac, Taylor and Whaea J
e-Learners Team at Putauaki, 2010
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